Paul Forrester-O'Neill has been writing for forty years, working in those early years as a bingo-caller, meals-on-wheels driver, care worker with the homeless and a quiz-setter in order to do so. He is currently employed in the more secure position of a Specialist Skills tutor at Keele and Staffordshire Universities. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University where he won the Michael Schmidt Prize for the novel of the year. Mission is his first published novel.